Really, it’s the same old website, only tidier, easier to navigate, and with this blog section a little more prominently placed (to make it easier to notice how rarely I post to it). Rest assured that the 1990s era technology, lovingly used to originally create this internet outpost, lives on into the 21st century.

On Saturday night, I saw an amazing and moving performance of Julian Koster’s band The Music Tapes at Backspace here in Portland. Static, the singing television, and the 7-foot-tall metronome all made their usual contributions. Meanwhile, the time-honored formula of horns, toy instruments, and having a dozen people on stage at once was worked to near perfection. If you have the opportunity to catch them, you absolutely should. It was a memorable show executed by truly sweet people.

Welcome to the online home of Ross Beach, a songwriter, producer, audio engineer, radio DJ, and software developer living in Portland, Oregon. He's a co-founder and former President of the 501(c)(3) non-profit group PDX Pop Now! In his home state of Louisiana, he collaborated with the group of musicians known as the Elephant 6 collective, including stints with The Gerbils and Neutral Milk Hotel. He has written and recorded seventeen albums of music.